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Overkill · Motörhead

EXERCISE 6 OF 10
4-bar fill at bar 149
146 / 156 BARS COVERED
0 / 10 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
3 groovesAS2S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Overkill on drums

156 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 5:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
5:00
DIFFICULTY
86/100

hi-hat through bars 1-94, kick and crashes through bars 95-96, hi-hat through bars 97-122, kick and crashes through bars 123-124, hi-hat through bars 125-149 and toms through bars 150-151, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-79, 81-83 and 85-87, and 9 more places -- 82.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Overkill -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 93, 94, 95, 121, 122, 123 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 7 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Overkill?

125 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Overkill hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 5:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Overkill?

2 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 93, 94, 95, 121, 122, 123 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED